The Jungle, Upton Sinclair - Steven Rosendale (essay date 2002)
Steven Rosendale (essay date 2002)
SOURCE: Rosendale, Steven. “In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past: The Jungle, Social Change, and the Class Character of Environmental Impairment.” In The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment, edited by Steven Rosendale, pp. 59-76. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
[In the following essay, Rosendale explores Sinclair's use of landscape as symbolism of class status in The Jungle.]
When it comes to genius, to beauty, dignity, and true power of mind, I cannot see that there is any chance for them to survive in the insane hurly-burly of metropolitan life. If I wanted qualities such as these in human beings, I would surely transfer them to a different environment. And maybe that is what Providence was planning for me to understand and to do in the world. At any rate, it is what I am trying to do, and is my final reaction to the great...
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